Damage to custom Layout

Alan.B · Post by **Alan.B** » 2007 Oct 23, 22:18

I am very happy with Xplorer2 Lite, Ver 1.7.0.5, apart from one irritation.

I have a custom layout called "1 External" which has 6 tabs for the 6 partitions on my external hard drive. Unfortunately 1 out of 6 gets hijacked.

On start-up the "0 default" is launched, with many Tabs, each aimed somewhere on C:\ because I want no delays from External Drive access unless I want to use it.

When I want to transfer to/from the external drive I select Windows > "1 External" and I get 5 out of 6 partitions - unfortunately the active Tab is hijacked and is now a duplicate of what had been the active Tab on the initial default layout.

I guess I can add a seventh "sacrificial" Tab to External, and perhaps my 6 partition Tabs will be preserved so long as I remember to make the sacrificial tab the default when I close "1 External", but I am hoping for something easier.

Alan

fgagnon · Post by **fgagnon** » 2007 Oct 24, 01:38

I haven't checked recently, but I recall in the past a limitation in that layout names cannot contain a space character, or the start-up command line has trouble parsing correctly. (I have developed a habit of using underscores instead of spaces myself.)

You might try using 1_External for your layout name, and see it that fixes the situation.

HTH

Alan.B · Post by **Alan.B** » 2007 Oct 24, 09:13

Sorry. I am normally too verbose, but this time I was too concise.

The name I allocated was "External" without a space.

With "1 External" I was actually referring to the 8th item in the Window drop down menu, immediately below the standard entry no 7 of "0 default".

Supplementary question. If I have more than one layout at a time in action, and forget which is what, how can I tell - originally I hoped to see the name in the title bar. Whilst my only custom layout is all the external partitions I will avoid confusion - but additional layouts with varying targets could be another problem

Regards
Alan

Post by **nikos** » 2007 Oct 24, 11:39

layouts work like that, they are not meant for storing folder sets. The active tab is always replaced with the folder being browsed, e.g. from the command line arguments

if you want to save particular groups of folders in a set, use the folder groups feature (it's for the pro version only)

Alan.B · Post by **Alan.B** » 2007 Oct 24, 13:39

Thank you Nikos

The free version already overwhelms me with all its capabilities. At the moment I would not be able to cope with any extra horse power !!!

I have only used this for a few weeks. After a few more months experience I may well invest in the Pro Version (even though I "always" choose free-ware due to long standing miserliness plus recent reduction to a retirement pension).

Regards
Alan